Providing a mobile water filtration  system and a mobile seawater desalination reverse osmosis (RO) system, GE enabled OUC to continuously treat its wastewater during the outage.

Agreement enhances City’s water security, reduces Pioneer’s need for freshwater.

Worldwide sales of new semiconductor manufacturing equipment will increase 8.7% to $39.7 billion in 2016, according to SEMI.

Read full article: Chip manufacturing equipment market grows 8.7%

TDK, the Japanese components manufacturer, wants to buy MEMS specialist InvenSense.

Read full article: TDK talking M&A with InvenSense

TSMC has told Taiwan’s minister of science and technology that it needs 123 to 198 acres for its 3-5nm fab which is planned for 2022

Read full article: TSMC plans 3/5nm fab for 2022

Imec and the Holst Centre develop a miniaturized sensor that determines pH and chloride levels in fluid.

Read full article: Imec device senses pH and Cl simultaneously

Leti has a device which enables consumer brain-scanning. Normally the province of hospitals, it could now be put into the hands of consumers.

Read full article: Leti democratises brain-scans

At the recent NIDays in London it was interesting to see Lego exhibiting. They were promoting the IET-backed First Lego League (FFL).

Read full article: Mindstorms EV3 powers First Lego League

Adding a Wi-Fi interface to your IoT sensor node does not have to be a big deal, writes Tim Bonnett of Alpha Micro Components.

Read full article: Design options to give your IoT node a Wi-Fi interface

Tech CEOs are living in fear of new ‘non-tech’ competitors. An interesting piece of pre-Christmas research seems to indicate that companies are still not that good at identifying the technologies that will have the largest impact on their business. According to business analyst KPMG, fewer than one-third of senior executives in technology companies believe they …

Read full article: Tech CEOs feel the fear factor